Foreign.

Manawatu Herald, 15 August 1896, Page 2

Foreign.

The Porte will send Zihny Pasha, Governor of Bruaa, and Iziadit Effendi, of the Turkish Court of Cassation, to oonsult the Consuls in Crete and arrange terms with the malcontents.

The insurgents in Crete are blockading 1000 Moslems at Episkopi.

The intense heat continues in the States, and on Monday 163 deaths were reported in Chicago, which is the highest number ever recorded. The newspapers here contain grave news of brigandage and insecurity reigning in Madagascar.

A resolution has been submitted in the Cretan Assembly proposing to proclaim a union with Greece. It is believed this will be the Big* nal for a general rising. Four Christian villages in Crete have boen sacked.

Zihni Pasha, who is to represent the Porte in the conference with the Consuls, has full powers to make a settlement in regard to the reforms desired in Crete.

In Chicago the deaths on Thursday from heat were over 70. Many horses were stricken down in the streets.

Upward* of 25,000 people are sleeping in the New York docks. It is reported here that two parties of Indians witnessed a ballon in latitude 55 deg. after Andree's last report.

There was a south wind blowing, and it is thought possible the explorers have started.

The assassin of the late Shah has bean executed.

Libentha], a Gerraau, the inventor of thu flying machine, has been killed by tho fall of the machino in the city.